powershell wait for command to finish before proceeding

Question

In powershell I am trying to do the following:

$name = "computername"
#get installed programs
Write-Host "****APPLICATIONS"
gwmi win32_Product -ComputerName $name | select name

#gets services
write-host "****SERVICES"
Get-Service -ComputerName $name | ft

the expected output would be

****APPLICATIONS
name
of
app

****SERVICES
running services here
more services here

the actual result is

****APPLICATIONS
****SERVICES
name
of
app
running services here
more services here

I have attempted to do start-job then wait-job , but running gwmi as a job seems to output nothing to the console and sending the output to a separate file defeats the purpose of other parts of the script

I also attempted to use start-sleep and it still finishes both write-host commands before proceeding

Answer 1

Try this:

$name = "computername"
Write-Host "`n****APPLICATIONS`n"
gwmi win32_Product -ComputerName $name | % {$_.name}
write-host "`n****SERVICES"
Get-Service -ComputerName $name | ft

If you want the results alphabetical:

$name = "computername"
Write-Host "`n****APPLICATIONS`n"
$apps = gwmi win32_Product -ComputerName $name | % {$_.name}
$apps | sort
write-host "`n****SERVICES"
Get-Service -ComputerName $name | ft